Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by ...

Weakened by war and diplomatic deadlock, Iran’s clerical elite stands at a crossroads: defy pressure to halt its nuclear ...

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a ...

Tensions between Iran and Israel are reaching new heights as proxy forces clash across the region. With nuclear threats in ...

Iranian police arrested as many as 21,000 "suspects" during the country's 12-day war with Israel in June, a law enforcement ...

HASAN T. ALHASAN is Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. EMILE HOKAYEM ...

Though the ceasefire between Israel and Iran has been holding, 'The war remains an unfinished project, for both sides,' one Middle East expert warns.

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Since the collapse of ISIS, Iran has been the Middle East’s primary generator of regional instability. Its proxy groups have unleashed attacks on Israel, U.S. forces, Arab Gulf ...

An expert analyzes how China is responding to a new set of global challenges. China’s growing engagement in the Middle ...

Two were seized after Israel and the United States attacked Iranian targets in June, and two others have been held since 2024 ...

By the 1990s, Israeli intelligence was growing increasingly concerned that Iran was escalating and trying to develop a nuclear bomb—a red line for Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East.

The Pentagon says the U.S. military remains "well postured" to defend Israel and American forces in the region.